Ring-rail for spinning-frames



(No Model A. S. & R. (3. P. LANG. RING BAIL FOR SPINNING FRAMES.

Patented Mar. 25, 1890.

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ARTHUR LANG AND RUPERT C. P. LANG, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.

RING-RAIL FOR SPINNING-FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,215, dated March 25, 1890.

Application filed November 1889. Serial No. 328,908. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ARTHUR S. LANG and RUPERT O. P. LANG, both of Fall River, in the county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Ring-Rails for Spinning-Frames, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a'top View of a fragment of our improved rail, showing some of the rings in position; Figs. 2 and 3, sectional elevations of the same, showing method of attaching the supporting-rods; Fig. l, a plan of aportion of a side bar, showing the ring-socket; and Fig. 5, a vertical transverse section of'the same.

Like letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the drawings.

Our invention relates especially to means for securing rings in the rail of a spinningframe; and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a simpler, cheaper, and more efiective device of this character than is now in ordinary use.

The nature and operation of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation:

In the drawings, A represents the support-.

ing-rods of the rail, B the rings, and G the side bars. The rings are of the ordinary construction and provided with peripheral flanges b in the usual manner. The side bars 0 are preferably rectangular in cross-section- At suitable intervals the bars 0 are provided with curved or segmental undercut recesses f in the upper portion of their adjacent edges, as best shown in Figs. 4c and 5. These recesses are adapted to receive and retain a flange b of the rings. The side bars are secured together by laterally-arranged screwbolts passing through suitable openings in one rail, preferably countersunk to conceal the heads of said bolts, and having their threaded ends 72, turned into correspondingly threaded openings in the opposite bar. The rings are disposed in the usual position in corresponding recesses f of the bars 0, and the bolts 9 are then set up, securely clamping said rings in position. The recesses being undercut, as described, the flanges T) entering therein prevent accidental vertical movement of said rings.

The lifting or supporting rods A have their upper ends threaded at m, and a U-shaped or forked head 19 is turned thereon, the arms of said head being inserted in proper openings in the under face of the side bars 0, as best shown in Fig. 2.

The shape of the heads permits a slight spring action thereto and prevents them from interfering with the proper clamping of the rings in the side bars.

Having thus explained our invention, what we claim is-- 1. Aring-rail for spinning-frames, comprising side bars provided with segmental recesses in their adjacent edges, and screw bolts for clamping the rings therein, substantially as described.

2. In a ringrail, side bars secured together by screw bolts and provided in adjacent edges with segmental undercut recesses adapted to receive the ring-flange, substantially as described.

3. In a ring rail, side bars connected by screw-bolts and provided in adjacent edges with segmental undercut recesses, in combination with supportinguods having detachable forked heads adapted to beinserted in sockets in the rail, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a ring-rail, rectangular side bars hav- .ing segmental undercut recesses in their adjacent upper edges for receiving the ringflange, screw threaded lifting-rods, and U- shaped heads thereon having their arms disposed in sockets in said bars, substantially as described.

5. In a ring-rail, the combination of rectangular side bars connected by screw bolts and provided with segmental undercut recesses in their adjacent edges, flanged rings disposed in said recesses, screw-threaded supporting-rods, and forked heads turned into in combinationwit-h the rodsA,providedwith 1o said rods, their arms being disposed in sockets detachable forked heads" 19, and the rings B,

in said side bars, substantially as described. disposed in said recesses, substantially as 6. In a ring-rail, the side bars 0, provided and for the purpose set forth. with the recesses f, in combination with the ARTHUR-S. LANG.

bolts 9, connecting said bars, substantially RUPERT C. P. LANG. as described. I Witnesses:

7. In a ring-rail, the side bars 0, provided FRANK B. CAMPBELL, with the recesses f,and connected by bolts g, HENRY H. EARL. 

